Microsoft Teams ringtones and notification sounds
Microsoft Teams is on the rise these days. Hate it or love it, I really liked the sound scheme for the desktop app. I couldn’t seem to the audio files anywhere so I had to rip them manually. If you…
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Add PowerShell and CMD (admin) to the Windows context menu
If you use the command line or Powershell a lot in Windows, why not add it to the right-click context menu? All you need to do is to run a batch file as administrator. Save the batch files, and run them as an administrator!
How to deploy Lenovo Vantage
What is Lenovo Vantage? Lenovo Vantage is primarily a software to get drivers for a Lenovo computer. Lenovo Vantage provides a user interface for changing hardware settings, running diagnostic scans, checking for driver updates, and more. Whereas Lenovo previously provided…
WSUS Offline Update tutorial
“WSUS Offline Update” also known as “wsusoffline” is a Microsoft Windows application that can download Windows updates to a local folder so you can install those updates later on another offline computer. It is a great way to update computers…
Access Windows 10 settings with run commands
Here is a list of commands that you can use to directly open specific categories in the Windows 10 Settings menu. This is great for IT-support that have to support multiple languages. You can use the key combination WIN +…
Get computer information with CMD
Get model name of the computer: Get the serial number of a computer: Get vendor/company of the computer: Get drive information. This basically shows the same as Disk Management but what is interesting is that if you have a drive…
Setup WordPress in Windows 10 with WampServer
This might look long and complicated, but it is really quick and easy, I promise! 😉 1. Download, install and run WampServer. No need to change any settings. Just next, next, next all the way 👍 2. Download WordPress. 3.…
Downmixing surround audio to stereo with FFmpeg
Downmixing surround audio with FFmpeg is super easy. Forget about all other super complicated ways to do this. This is the right way to do it in FFMpeg: Convert an audio file with surround sound to stereo: Convert a video…
Improving the picture viewer in Directory Opus
Directory Opus is an alternative software for Windows Explorer. Directory Opus has a range of tools and customization options that make it far more versatile and powerful than Windows Explorer. Disclaimer: Note that this is not an advertorial for Directory…
Custom folder view based on folder content in Directory Opus
Directory Opus has the option to display files differently depending on which files are in a folder. Let’s say you have a folder with a bunch of pictures. By default it will look like this: To set it up, let’s…
Working with Active Directory on a computer outside a domain
A lot of people don’t realize this, but if you have a computer outside (not joined to a domain) you can still access on-prem Active Directory. No reason to domain join your computer just to do some AD work. 😉…
Customize Windows 10 default user profile
The default user profile in Windows 10 is the user profile that all new user profiles are based on. If you make changes to the default user profiles registry, all new user profiles will be equally affected. You can find…